Ocular signs, visual and general developmental outcome in Indian children with radiologically proven periventricular leukomalacia.

Purpose: Owing to the paucity of literature on Indian children with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), this retrospective study aimed to describe the visual and associated developmental abnormalities in a series of affected children attending a tertiary level eye care facility.

Methods: Children with radiologically confirmed PVL who attended the Pediatric Department of a tertiary eye hospital were included and underwent a detailed ocular and general developmental assessment.

Results: Of the 75 children, the mean age was 2.

Parenting Style, Parental Personality, and Child Temperament in Children with Anxiety Disorders-A Clinical Study from India.

Background: Anxiety disorders are common in children and contribute to adverse developmental outcomes. Although etiological models of child anxiety have identified various environmental factors, very few studies in India have examined these factors in children presenting with anxiety disorders. Therefore, the present study was designed to examine parenting styles, parental personality, and child temperament in children with anxiety disorders in an Indian outpatient setting.

Thought Disorder on Object Sorting Test Is Associated with Executive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia.

Background: Thought disorder is considered to be central to the core disturbances in schizophrenia and was described by Goldstein as aberrant "concept formation." Executive dysfunction is another core deficit in schizophrenia. With a greater emphasis on psychopathology in nosological systems, the classical thought disorder receives less prominence.